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Gallant Guru stock continue winning

(The Barmaid)

The Barmaid and Gold'nguru kept the ball rolling for White Robe
Lodge stallion Gallant Guru with wins at Riverton on Saturday
(9/4/2016) following the win of Mal d'Mour at Washdyke on Friday.
The Barmaid won a $12,000 Pearl series race for Woodlands
owner-trainers, the Dennis brothers and Robert Dennis. It was the
fourth win for The Barmaid. Goldn'guru is trained at Winton by
Leda Beck for Murray Forde, a Winton dairy farmer and the estate of
Eamon Cleary. They bred Goldn'guru after being loaned the mare,
Ijustgot Personal by WRL. Mr Cleary, an Irish-born
billionaire businessman, died at his stud, Clearsky Farm, in
Kentucky at the age of 52 in 2012, 10 months after Gold'guru was
foaled. He raced horses throughout the world, among them Rand, Rags
To Riches and Real Tonic. Rags To Riches won the group one
Easter Handicap at Ellerslie in 2006. Rand won the 2000 New
Zealand Grand National Hurdles, the Pegasus Steeple in Japan and a
hurdles in the United States. Real Tonic won the 2006 Great
Northern Steeple, Great Eastern Steeple at Oakbank and a Waikato
Hurdles. Mr Cleary established the chair in Irish
studies at the University of Otago in 2006 which led to the centre
for Irish and Scottish Studies, the only one of its kind in
the southern hemisphere. Gold'nguru is one of two foals left
by Itjustgot Personal (Personal Escort -Tympanum), a sister to
Personal Drum, winner of the 2006 Grand National Steeplechase at
Flemington and Hiskins Steeple at Moonee Valley. Tympanum was
a winning daughter of Tawfiq and Auditory, winner of the 1982
Riverton Cup.The Barmaid is bred on the same cross at Gold'nguru,
being out of the Personal Escort mare, The Gem.